storage organ

noun

, Botany.

1. any swollen plant part in which food is stored, as fruit, root, or tuber.

Example Sentences

In its first year, the carrot develops a tasty orange root, but this is merely a storage organ for the following spring, when it shoots up and produces umbels of tiny white flowers, each destined to become a seed.

From Washington Post

Martin adds that the AtMYB12 gene could also be engineered into other fruits, and potentially certain vegetables where the products could be accumulated in a storage organ such as a tuber.

From Scientific American

“They were eating the tubers, that is, the underground storage organ,” said the senior author of the study, Karen Hardy, of the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain.

From New York Times

These diminutive Romeos place packages of sperm on the outside of the female's body, close to her sperm storage organ, just below her mouth.

From Science Magazine

These diminutive Romeos place packages of sperm on the outside of the female's body, close to her sperm storage organ, just below her mouth.

From Science Magazine